Sentence examples for purpose or point from inspiring English sources

It doesn't serve any purpose or point".

He went on, "There's no purpose or point to worrying about what other people are doing".

That way, some purpose or point may be gleaned from this whole sorry endeavour.

Here we need to consider the purpose or point of torture.

For Dworkin, this point holds good for the activities of judges and legal theorists alike: anyone reasoning about the law is required to treat it as an interpretive social practice and offer interpretations of what it requires in light of the purpose or point which they assign to it.

The attitude in question comprises two components: the assumption that the practice does not merely exist, but has a purpose or point, and the further assumption that the rules of the practice are not necessarily what they have always been taken to be, but rather are sensitive to, and can be revised in light of, its point (Dworkin 1986 ch.2; also, the entry on interpretivist theories of law).

"If you're disillusioned, feeling like there's not a lot of purpose or a point or feeling a general sense of unhappiness, seeing a therapist could help you regain some clarity or start in a new direction," he says.

Radio 4 has to be serious in its purpose – or what's the point?

"It has no purpose" or "It has no point" -- those are things people say when they come out of the theater.

Few in the public understood the bill's motivation, or its purpose, a point Cameron implicitly admitted recently when he described the invisible crisis inside the NHS.

Theory has no purpose, no point, no overview or consolation — it was a kind of intellectual masturbation.